Tried to run my data field in the VSC simulator, and SAVE AS FIT file. but I can't upload that into Garmin. Any work around?
Tried to run my data field in the VSC simulator, and SAVE AS FIT file. but I can't upload that into Garmin. Any work around?
It doesn't surprise me that a fit file generated in the sim isn't compatible with Garmin Connect. It could be intentional, so that simulated fit files can't be involved with things like challenges…
I was able to get a FIT file generated by the simulator to be accepted by Garmin Connect by consecutively running it through 2 free tools:
1) The corrupt time fixer at https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/c…
I was able to get a FIT file generated by the simulator to be accepted by Garmin Connect by consecutively running it through 2 free tools:
1) The corrupt time fixer at https://www.fitfiletools.com/#/ctf#view
2) The ActivityRepair tool in the FIT SDK. (Note that this tool is known to remove data from FIT files, resulting in a smaller file, although it may not matter in this case or most cases with real files)
I was also able to get the file to be accepted by running it through FIT File Repair Tool, which isn't free.
Every tool I mentioned above produced an output file that was smaller than the input, but again, you may not care about or notice whatever data was removed.
If all you want to do is examine FIT file contents, including map, metric graphs, and internal data that isn't even visible on Connect, it might be easier to just open it with https://www.fitfileviewer.com/. (You can also use this site to determine exactly what data is removed by any of the tools above.)
